You cannot present Aadhaar as a birth certificate.
Aadhaar card is undoubtedly a very important document, but when it comes to determining age in a particular situation, Aadhaar card is not a valid document for that. The Supreme Court has given this decision during the hearing of a case. According to Bhasha news, in fact, the Supreme Court on Thursday canceled the order of Punjab and Haryana High Court in which Aadhaar card was accepted to determine the age of a person who lost his life in a road accident for giving compensation. .
This is not proof of date of birth
According to the report, a bench of Justice Sanjay Karol and Justice Ujjal Bhuiyan said that the age of the deceased should be determined from the date of birth mentioned in the school leaving certificate under Section 94 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015. The bench noted that we find that the Unique Identification Authority of India vide its Circular No. 8/2023, with reference to an office memorandum issued by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology dated December 20, 2018, has stated that for establishing an Aadhaar card identity Can be used for, but is not proof of, date of birth.
The age was calculated as
The Supreme Court accepted the contention of the claimant-appellants and upheld the decision of the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT), which had calculated the age of the deceased on the basis of his School Leaving Certificate. The top court was hearing an appeal filed by the family members of a man who died in a road accident in 2015. MACT, Rohtak had ordered a compensation of Rs 19.35 lakh which was reduced to Rs 9.22 lakh by the High Court after observing that MACT had wrongly applied the age multiplier while determining the compensation.
Relying on the Aadhaar card of the deceased, the High Court had estimated his age as 47 years. The family argued that the High Court had committed an error in determining the age of the deceased on the basis of Aadhaar card because if his age is calculated as per his school leaving certificate, he was 45 years of age at the time of death.
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